There used to be an addon, “Open tabs from clipboard URLs” but I can’t seem to find it anymore.

The best I find now is, an addon that opens a box, then you paste your URLs in it, then you press a button.

That’s not what I want. I want a toolbar button, I press it, the tabs open.

So that I can opens large blocks of URLs.

Also, I would like another addon which opens large blocks of URLs but does not load them immediately.

I have LoadOnSelect3 for this, but the problem with that one, is that it opens special moz:// pages until you load the tab. And that breaks searching and filtering tabs because the tab title and URL are not the real ones.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Two potential solutions to x in this case might be

      • if the links are always the same, save them as bookmarks in a folder and you can right click to open all in new tabs

      • if the links are all different, I think there are tools that can do that (spreadsheets, scripts)

      • infeeeee@lemm.ee
        6·
        8 months ago

        If you don’t give more context we can’t really help.

        Why do you want to open 100s of tabs? Where do you get the links, are they generated by some other software, or you just saved them?

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I never have more than ten tabs open. With my bookmarks I just type like “bookstack” and I’m there. Seems like its the same though so to each their own.

  • MrOtherGuy@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    You just have the link texts in a text editor one at each line, then select all and drag the selection to tabs toolbar.

    But yeah, it does become an issue if you try it with thousands of tabs… It should work, but probably chokes quite a bit.

  • daisyKutter@lemmy.ml
    3·
    8 months ago

    You cant have an addon that open larg blocks of urls and doesn’t load them but does show its titles on each tab; If you are showing the title of the tab is because the page has been loaded at some point

  • Malix@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    8 months ago

    Assuming you know what you’re doing, maybe some script? At least on linux something like this seems to work:

    #!/bin/bash

urls_file="${HOME}/path/to/url_list.txt";
sleep_time=1;

while read -r line;
do
    firefox "${line}";
    sleep ${sleep_time};
done < "${urls_file}";

    edit: heh, tried to delete this as irrelevant, as I entirely missed the clipboard & requirement for a button IN firefox… but it didn’t really delete it seems. Oh well, leaving this in for laughs.

    Anyhoo, if you need to speed up/throttle the link opening somehow, maybe add some incremental counter there and skip sleeping if counter < 10 or whatever.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      8 months ago

      On windows (where I am trapped), I can make a script read the clipboard (or even a script directly in my clipboard manager, ditto) but what I don’t know is how to make firefox open URLs in a specific window.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        8 months ago

        if firefox is the default browser, I guess just start "" "https://your.url.here.foo", as per https://superuser.com/a/36730

        otherwise, I guess you could just cd to firefox’s directory and do the same firefox.exe urlhere

        as for specific window… yea that might be tad hard. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions doesn’t seem to have any way to indicate any specific instance/window from cli.

        could be firefox handles those internally, kinda seems like urls open up in the window which was last active. So… I guess you could start the script by starting firefox with --new-instance or --new-window, and patiently wait until urls are open? I guess.

  • VeryNiiiice@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    8 months ago

    If you know Javascript you could maybe create a bookmarklet that does this. I just don’t know if it can access your clipboard.